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Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store by glogla on Thursday October 06, 2016 @07:07AM (#12651479)
That might look the way in theory, but it is not so in practice. There will never be another Google, or another Facebook, or another Amazon - efficiency based on scale and network effect mean they are entrenched as monopolies for ever, too big to fail.
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Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store by jtc331 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:05AM (#12651720)
Which is why Facebook replaced MySpace and Google replaced Yahoo and Altavista and so on.

The idea that economies of scale make it impossible for a company to never face competition is ridiculous. The only thing that can do that is govenment protectionism.

Along with economies of scale is the opposite effect: the inefficiency of bureaucracy and having competing interests between business units.

Being large isn't the magical unicorn you think.

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Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store by rubber_duck on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:56AM (#12652005)
Ten years ago you could be telling the same story about Yahoo and Microsoft and look at them now.
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Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store by Certhas on Saturday October 08, 2016 @03:01AM (#12665984)
Yahoo was in a completely nascent unsettled market, and Microsoft didn't go anywhere. Microsofts net revenue and net income are large than Alphabets/Googles.
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